Gross and unlikeable is reality. Steaming viscera. Menstruation as omen. The sharp blade of a returned violence. The stories in this collection aren’t evoking a theme, but destroying the lie of women tamed, of women just so.

Come hear some of the stories from the collection and feast your eyes upon some deliciously dark artwork. Women. Horror. Gross. Unlikeable. YES.

For this edition, Black Candies turned to guest editor Natanya Ann Pulley who writes in the foreword, “I believe writing stories (like all art) is a political act. Whose story we tell, whose we share, and how we expect them to be handed to us is an engagement with truths… This collection doesn’t just give women a space to tell vile stories, it grapples with notions of story and reality handed to women through things dark and dangerous.”

]]>http://www.sosayweallonline.com/jim-ruland-reviews-black-candies-for-citybeat/feed/010924High Tech High Chula Vista Storytelling Exhibitions!http://www.sosayweallonline.com/high-tech-high-chula-vista-storytelling-exhibitions/
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So Say We All is proud to have worked with these students, this project, and the school. We can’t wait to see the performances.

]]>http://www.sosayweallonline.com/high-tech-high-chula-vista-storytelling-exhibitions/feed/010919So Say We All 2016 Winter Fundraiserhttp://www.sosayweallonline.com/so-say-we-all-2016-winter-fundraiser/
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Thank you, and let’s keep the conversation going throughout the new year, together. – So Say We All.

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I’ve found that women are often underrepresented in horror, and wanted to create a platform where they could not only have a voice, but be as gross, dark and unlikeable as they want. I still think there’s an attitude, even among the liberal literati, that can’t abide a woman writing ugly stories.

And lo, a theme was born: gross and unlikeable. Over the past year, guest editor Natanya Ann Pulley has carefully led us in the midwifery of putting together this collection of beautiful and powerful stories and art. Along every step of the way, all contributors have been women. Behold the line-up of incredible writers, artists, editors, and designers that comprise this killer book:

If you like what we do at So Say We All, please consider becoming a supporting member. For as little as $5 per month you can support the work we do in finding the voices we don’t often hear from and helping them tell their stories, and tell them well.

]]>http://www.sosayweallonline.com/black-candies-gross-and-unlikeable-contributors/feed/010891Lindsay Hunter on Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeablehttp://www.sosayweallonline.com/lindsay-hunter-on-black-candies-gross-and-unlikeable/
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Gross and Unlikeable made me feel the way I felt as a kid reading scary stories with a flashlight in the dark. These tales hit at something primitive and true, something beyond fear. Then and now, I felt almost giddy as I read, the way one might when the footsteps are getting closer and the only thing left to do is scream.

-Lindsay Hunter
author of Ugly Girls.

Black Candies is our annual print collection of short stories. Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable is a special women-only issue, featuring stories and art by all-women contributors. It hits the shelves on Black Friday, 11/25/16. That’s right: this week.

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]]>http://www.sosayweallonline.com/lindsay-hunter-on-black-candies-gross-and-unlikeable/feed/010886Adrian Van Young on Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeablehttp://www.sosayweallonline.com/adrian-van-young-on-black-candies-gross-and-unlikeable/
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Gross and Unlikeable is our collection of short fiction and art exclusively by women contributors. We are proud of and madly in love with this work, and hope you will be too.

“The writers in this anthology breathe life into characters and conflagrations that are frightening and fearful, cagey and forthright, familiar and unknowable, repulsive and endearing, vulnerable and indomitable, befuddling and unmistakable, gross and unlikeable, yes, i.e. human. Together, they churn up a vital miasma of horror’s sub-genres to create something heedless, fresh and lasting. Reading this book is like being drawn and quartered by a stampede of half-decayed, red-eyed horses.”

–Adrian Van Young, author of Shadows in Summerland

We have never been drawn and quartered by a stampede of any horses, much less half-decayed, red-eyed ones, but we now know what Adrian thinks it feels like. We can’t wait to show you the way our authors take horror’s sub-genres and stand them on end in this beautiful volume. PRE ORDER IT NOW!

“Deeply inappropriate, unbelievably disturbing, these are some brave and real stories of love, sex, family and other horrors.”

—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky

Thank you Charlie Jane Anders! We can’t wait for all of you to get your hands on your copy, too. Coming at you November 25th. Pre-order now.

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky, out now. She’s the organizer of the Writers With Drinks reading series, and she was a founding editor of io9, a website about science fiction, science and futurism. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, Lightspeed, TinHouse, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies. Her novelette “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo award.

]]>http://www.sosayweallonline.com/charlie-jane-anders-on-black-candies-gross-and-unlikeable/feed/010835Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable is now available for PRE-SALEhttp://www.sosayweallonline.com/black-candies-gross-and-unlikeable-is-now-available-for-pre-sale/
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Black Friday is coming. In just under two weeks, Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable, our women-only edition of our annual print anthology of literary horror and dark fiction, will hit the shelves and your hearts. Now is the time to listen to marginalized voices.

This book features 28 stories and accompanying art. All women contributors: writers, artists, editors, designers. And now you can make sure you get yourself a copy: